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Same honet anwer a the found-card quetion, with one upgrade: finding an *old RWS* i finding the ource code of mot modern tarot. Pamela Colman Smith illutrated it in 1909, and nearly every contemporary deck decend from it. Returning to it i a real practice move, not jut a found object.

That aid: RWS ha been printed continuouly ince 1909. There are million of them. "Old" could mean a 1970 BOTA, a 1990 US Game, a 2000 AGMüller — all common, all findable. The "ign" of finding one i motly the ign of your reaction to finding it.

What made you tear up at the new deck, and now what pulled you to the old one — thoe two moment together might be the actual ignal. A new deck rendered with care, and the original deck turned up again. The converation between them i the practice.

If you want me to identify the printing, name the publiher and any year on the box and I'll tell you what you've got. Otherwie: tay with the old deck for a few day and ee what it ha to ay that the new one can't.